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The Bear and the Serpent – Adrian Tchaikovsky
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THE DEAR AND THE SERPENT : The Time For Peace Is Over (Echoes of the Fall Series Book #2)

Adrian Tchaikovsky
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A Battle For A Throne; a war For Survival Epic Fantasy Fiction

Remarks Free Cover-Pages Wrapping
ISBN 9781509830251
Book Condition LIKE NEW
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Publication Date 01 Nov 2017
Pages 464
Weight 0.45 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 3 cm
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The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s epic fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.
 
The Bear and the Serpent (2017), an epic shapeshifter fantasy set in a Bronze Age type of era, is the sequel to 2016’s The Tiger and the Wolf. It follows the continuing adventures of a young woman named Maniye, who has an unusual dual heritage that allows her to instantly shapeshift into Wolf (her father’s people) and Tiger (her mother’s).
 
As the south is in turmoil, an old terror emerges in the north . . .
 
Maniye, child of Wolf and Tiger, has a new soul and a new shape. She has been named Champion of her people.But as Champion of the Crown of the World, does she represent an opportunity for the North – or a threat? Travelling as a bodyguard to the Southern prince, with her warband of outcasts, she hopes to finally discover her true place in the world.


Now Maniye has been gifted a third form by the gods, called a Champion: a massive wolf/tiger/bear hybrid creature that’s a serious threat in battle. Maniye has gathered a warband of Wolves around her, those who didn’t fit well in the rigid clan structure of their Wolf tribe.
 
She and her Wolf group, along with a few other stray shapeshifters, are following Asmander of the River Lord (crocodile) people as he takes them south to help his side in a conflict for the crown of the River Lords. A twin brother and sister, childhood friends of Asmander, both want to rule the River Lords as their “Kasra,” and both have their supporters, including members of the Serpent priesthood.
 
But they’re unsure if she’s an asset – or a threat. To buy time, she joins Prince Tecuman’s warband of outcasts and heads south, to help him gain his crown. She wants to discover her true place in the world, but instead heads into the jaws of a fierce new conflict.
 
Conspiracies are everywhere they turn, and Maniye and her band of misfit Wolves soon find themselves the reluctant guardians of one of the two claimants to the throne, who is more of a weak boy than a confident potential ruler.
 
But if only it was that simple. Tensions rise, and new allies face up to old enemies as civil war threatens to tear the South apart. Royal twins can’t share a throne, so one must be chosen. And whoever rules the southern Sun River Nation will hold the fate of the world in their hands.
 
As the protector of one potential heir, Maniye soon finds herself at the eye of a political storm. Yet all the while, an enemy from the most ancient of times prepares for conquest, and could destroy everything in their path…
 
Civil war threatens as Tecuman and his twin sister battle for the throne, for only one can rule. Yet whoever triumphs will carry a heavy burden, as a great doom has been foreseen that will fall across their whole world. And soon Maniye finds herself at the heart of a political storm.
 
Danger is also shadowing her old home, where Lord Thunder and his bear clan are attempting to unite the northern tribes. But only extreme peril will end age-old rivalries. An adversary from the most ancient of times is preparing to strike, putting their lands and their very souls in danger. And neither north nor south will be spared the terror to come.
 
In a butshell, this well-wrought second installment in Tchaikovsky’s Echoes of the Fall epic fantasy series (after The Tiger and the Wolf) focuses on two major threats to the realistically magical world his shape-shifting tribes inhabit.
 
Loud Thunder, mightiest warrior of the Bear tribe, follows his dangerous destiny to rally the various quarreling tribes of the north into a united warband capable of battling the reawakening horror, the Plague People, who have destroyed the Seal tribe and are building a lethal foothold on the seashore.
 
In the South, Maniye, a young Wolf-Tiger, and Asmander, champion of the Crocodile Sun River Nation, become enmeshed in a potentially disastrous conflict between twin claimants to the throne, while the enigmatic Serpent priestess Hesprec constantly warns that something vile is approaching, so terrible that it may vanquish both sides.
 
Tchaikovsky’s huge cast of brilliantly portrayed characters must learn to heed the wisdom the Serpent has brought from the Oldest Kingdom: that soulless refugees, playing on the pity of their hosts, pose the ultimate threat to the peoples’ souls and must be defeated, no matter the cost.
 
Whether this is intended as a parallel to current political topics in our world is unclear. Tchaikovsky cannily leaves enough unfinished business to lure fantasy fans through many more emotional struggles and sweeping battles struggles to come.
 
Continue this sweeping coming-of-age fantasy series with The Hyena and the Hawk.
 
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About the Author :
 
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.

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